A serial fraudster was employed by a family in Kildare as a live in au pair after being outed on a hit podcast and in a series of newspaper articles as a conwoman.
Samantha Cooke managed to reinvent herself as child care worker Sadie Harris and lived for six months with the family while her real identity faced the eye of a publicity storm about a series of cons across Ireland.
Nicola speaks to journalist Mark Tighe of the Sunday Independent about the extraordinary story of a woman who keeps changing her name, look and background and who is currently gone dark somewhere in Ireland.
He tells her about her latest scam which terrified a young mother returning to work and about her colourful background as an artist, a writer and even a psychotherapist.
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Episode 452: The murder of Kinahan bagman Marco Yaqout
Episode 451: Soldier F to go on trial for Bloody Sunday double murder
Episode 450: The attempted murder of Noel Boylan in a Dublin supermarket
Episode 449: The life and crimes of Liam Byrne
Episode 448: Kinahan ally Edin Gacanin strikes deal with Dutch prosecutors
Episode 447: Europol crackdown on illegal gun factories using 3D printers
Episode 446: UVF set to transition from terror group to community political movement
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Episode 444: The Family and the €8 million heroin bust at Weston Airport
Episode 443: Former soccer star Paddy McCourt has sexual assault conviction overturned
Episode 442: Morris O'Shea-Salazar - The Kerry man accused of heading up a faction of the Sinaloa cartel
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